Clothes-pounder.



W. MACDONALD.

CLOTHES POUNDER.

APPLICATION FILED 00T.14, 1912.

Patented Nov. 18, 1913.

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WILLIAM Macncuatn, `or WINNIPQ MANITOBA, canapa.

CLOTHES-Pommes..

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 18,1913.

Application mea october 14, 19112.. serial No. 725,71a

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM MACDON- ALD, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at the city of Winnipeg, in the Province ofV Manitoba and Dominion of Canada, having invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pounders, do hereby declare that the following is a clear and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to laundry devices known as clothes pounders and has for its object the producing of an article of this kind more effective for the purpose designed than those previously in use, and one, the parts of which may be readily reached for cleaning purposes.

I attain my purposes by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings in whichl Figure 1 is a view of the under side of the pounder. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line A. A. in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a view of the soap receptacle cover and the lower plate attached thereto.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the different views.

In Figs. 1 and 2, 3 is a conical body preferably of sheet metal, disposed about and rigidly attached to a tube 4, which passes through the apex of the cone 3 and down for a distance thereinto, and which serves as a socket for the handle 5, which is shown with the upper end broken olf. To the lower end of the tube A is secured a soap receptacle 6, which is surrounded by a partition or flange 7 designed to isolate the upper part of the cone 3 from the lower part thereof.

Y This partition may be either joined to the soap receptacle 6 or to the tube A as may appear most suitable, but in either case the joint is made water tight as is also that between the periphery of the diaphragm and the cone 3. The soap receptacle 6 connects with its cover 8 by means of interengageable peripheral screw-threaded walls 9 with which each is provided. Surrounding the cover 8 and forming a part thereof, is the diaphragm 10, the periphery of which fits the cone 3, and which is drawn into and held firmly in place in the cone by the screwing of the cover 8 upon the soap receptacle 6. Secured to the outer periphery of the cone 3 are a number of semi-conical conduits 11 pound.

which extend from near the lower end of the cone to points adjacent to the apex thereof, and have communication with the interior of the cone 3 between the partitions 7 and 10 by the openings 13. The upper part of the soap receptacle 6 is furnished with openings 14 communicating with the interior o-f the cone, and the cover 8 is provided with openings 15 communicating with the outside.

In practice a cake of soap or other washing compound is placed in the receptacle 6, and the cover 8 screwed into place, taking with it the diaphragm 10.V As theV diaphragms 7 and 10 are of unperforated material the space between them forms a chamber communication with which is only to be had by means of the openings previously described. rIhe pounder is operated by hand in connection with a tub containing clothes and water, and in a vertically reciprocal manner. As the pounder. is pushed down the water rushes up through the conduits 11, through the openings 13 into the chamber formed between the diaphragms 7 and 10, and into the receptacle 6 where it becomes saturated with the washing comhen the pounder is raised the saturated water is thereby caused to iiow from the receptacle 6 out through the openings 15 in the cover 8. When the pounder is raised a partial vacuum is formed under it, thus facilitating the discharge of the water through the receptacle 6, and compeiling a circulation through the clothes contained in the tub.

It will be noted that the removal of the cover 8 of the soap receptacle and with it the diaphragm 10, leaves the interior of -the pounder all open for cleaning purposes.

I claim as my inventionH f A .clothes pounder comprising a conical body or shell, a centrally disposed tube extending thereinto, a screw threaded soa-p receptacle at the end of said tube, a horizontally disposed above the soap receptacle dividing the interior of the cone into two part-s, a cover for said soap receptacle, a circular flange surrounding and attachedto said cover and extending to the wall of said cone, said cover being screw threaded for engagement with the threads on said receptacle, whereby said imperforate partition mitted through said conduits, the interior flange is held in peripheral Contact with of said cone, said soap receptacle and said 10 said shell, conduits extending upward from near the bottom of said conical shell, and cover.

communicatinv with the interior of said cone between the partition therein and the WILLIAM; MACDONALD' flange around said cover, and openings in Witnesses:

JAS. J. MCBRIDE,

said soap receptacle and the cover therefor,

MARION LLOYD.

whereby uninterrupted eireudation` is per- Gopies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington. D. C. 

